Winamp 5 and MusicBrainz

I’ve tried lots of media management software. I’ve got nearly 30GB of MP3, MP3-Pro, OGG, FLAC, SHN, and WAV files… and that’s just music. I needed something that would play it all and, hopefully, give me a cool interface and management system to keep it all straight.
Most of the software out there wanted [...]

Identity and Once Upon A Time In Mexico

I haven’t talked about the movies I’ve seen recently here in a long time. I’ll start with some fresh ones you can catch on DVD.
“Identity” – I like John Cusack… always have. And, once again, I liked him in this. This is an ensemble piece, so I should say that pretty much [...]

Powers of Ten

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of [...]

Captain Maynard

Back when I was in high school, some friends and I had annual passes to Disneyland. We went there so often that we started to get to know some of the “cast members”. There was Bob at the candy store in Frontierland (is that store even there anymore?) which we dubbed “Bob’s Candy [...]

New Year’s Resolution: New Hobby!

I’m soon going to be embarking on a new hobby… home brewing. I was at a funeral today for my paternal grandmother. After the funeral and luncheon, we went to her house for family visiting. My aunt and her two sons live in the same house. These two cousins of mine [...]